As far as I am concerned, Ubuntu 16.04 is past its EOL. We should not
support it, and it will save us time messing around with obsolete
compilers too (the last release in gcc 5 branch was 4 years ago, and
gcc does not support anything older than gcc 9 now).

On Mon, Aug 30, 2021 at 7:22 PM Simon King <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi Matthias,
>
> On 2021-08-30, Matthias Köppe <[email protected]> wrote:
> > ./configure correctly determines that it needs to use CXX='g++
> > -std=gnu++11' to work with this old compiler.
> > Check if you have environment variables CC or CXX set in your global
> > environment -- they should be unset; otherwise, they will override the
> > values determined by ./configure. (This is nonstandard behavior of our
> > build system.)
>
> In a shell:
> king@klap:~/Sage/git/sage$ echo $CC
>
> king@klap:~/Sage/git/sage$ echo $CXX
>
> So, it is not set.
> In a Sage shell:
> (sage-sh) king@klap:sage$ echo $CC
> gcc
> (sage-sh) king@klap:sage$ echo $CXX
> g++ -std=gnu++11
>
> This is what it should be, right?
>
> Best regards,
> Simon
> >
> > On Sunday, August 29, 2021 at 3:04:34 PM UTC-7 Simon King wrote:
> >
> >> Hi Matthias,
> >>
> >> the two logs are at https://users.fmi.uni-jena.de/~king/logs/
> >>
> >> Best regards,
> >> Simon
> >>
> >> On 2021-08-29, Matthias Köppe <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> > Singular vendors a part of gfan called gfanlib. Perhaps an installation
> >> of
> >> > that is leaking into your build.
> >> >
> >> > If you can share your top-level config.log and the full gfan build log,
> >> we
> >> > can take a closer look.
> >> >
> >> > On Sunday, August 29, 2021 at 11:50:32 AM UTC-7 Simon King wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> Hi Matthias,
> >> >>
> >> >> On 2021-08-29, Matthias Köppe <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> >> > On Sunday, August 29, 2021 at 5:44:33 AM UTC-7 Dima Pasechnik wrote:
> >> >> >
> >> >> >> is gfan partially taken from the system?
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> probably. Ubuntu 16.04 has gfan version 0.5, but Sage needs 0.6.2.
> >> >> >> A system-wide install of old gfan might get in the way.
> >> >> >
> >> >> > No, that alone cannot explain it -- we test this configuration.
> >> >> > ubuntu-xenial-standard installs the system gfan, then rejects it,
> >> then
> >> >> > correctly builds gfan.
> >> >>
> >> >> What could explain it? Is there a typical application that I might have
> >> >> installed and depends on gfan? I mean, it is for Groebner fans. So, what
> >> >> *non-mathematical* software would use it? I don't think that I installed
> >> >> a mathematical software after the last successful build of Sage.
> >> >>
> >> >> Should I try to uninstall gfan, re-install it, and try again? And,
> >> >> if that fails, uninstall and NOT re-install, but build Sage and hope
> >> >> that it provides a working gfan?
> >> >>
> >> >> Best regards,
> >> >> Simon
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >
> >>
> >>
> >
>
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